[Correspondence] Mortality decrease according to socioeconomic groups

May 12, 2017

The Lancet 389, 10081 (2017)

Author: Samuel I Watson, Richard J Lilford

Enrique Regidor and colleagues’ Article1 analysed the effect of the economic crisis in Spain on age-adjusted mortality for different socioeconomic groups. We wish to point out that the results are consistent with a hypothesis of no difference between people of different socioeconomic groups, despite the authors’ conclusions.